Dips - only chest exercise

Dips - only chest exercise

Dudes

At the moment I just do weighted dips for chest, I use a wide (ish) grip. I'm doing 3 X 5 and ATM add about 35Kgs. Today I did them with a narrower grip and managed to add more weight - 45kg and think I could do 50+ before long. The only other upper body push I'm doing is military press on a different day

q1/ So if I can do more weight with a narrow grip should I change to narrow grip?

q2/ if so, would this take the focus away from my chest, would I need to add a chest exercise to my workout?

I think it's about finding a balance. As with bar benching, most don't go as wide as poss they find a nice range that leaves the forearms 90 degrees to the floor..... I would adopt a similar approach for dips, not excessively wide but not so narrow to detract the focus.

i would go for the heaviest weight you can manage. even if you are taking less emphasis off your chest [slightly] by dipping 50kg, its not like you would say no to another inch on your triceps is it?rob

The guys doing the exercise totally wrong for his chest he`s training his triceps,You need to have the elbows pointing out to the sides first of to take the emphasis of the triceps and onto the chest,then round the back and have the feet in front of you(not behind)with your toes out in front so that you are making a half moon shape with your body,then dip all the way down and come back up to just short of lockout keeping that half moon posture all the way throughout,to make it different only use the bottom 4 inches of the movement to put move emphasis on the lower outer pecline and remember when doing chest the idea is to not press up(shoulders,triceps)but to squeeze yourself up with your pecs.